Improvement in game-boards



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Patented May 7,1878.

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UNITEDCSTATES PATENT OFFICE* EDWARD-B. rEIRcE, 0FLowELn-Mnssncnusnrrs.

.IMPROVEMENT-IN.GAME-BOARDS;

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 203,368, dated May 7,1878; application led September 12, 1877.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD BURG-Ess PEIROE, of Lowell, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulGame, which I term Parlor Base-Ball 5 which invention is fully describedLand set forth in the following specication and accompanying drawings.

The nature of my invention consists in the adaptation and application ofa table comprising a list of the several movements iin a field-game ofbase-ball, and the use of said table in the determining of moves to bemade on a miniature base-ball ground, depicted on a board, tablet, orother suitable surface.4

The game can be played by any number of persons up to eighteen. The useof a movable device, in connection with the said table operated by theplay/rndicates the several moves to be made/by pieces representing menon the miniature eld.

I describe my invention in detail, as follows:

In the drawing, A A represent a table comprising a list of the differentmovements made in a field-game of base-ball. B is a revolving pginter,which revolves laterally on the center a c.

Hl H2 and H3 indicate the several bases in a base-ball ield, H being thebatters position, P being the pitchers position, and C G O C theminiature field. Little circles at the corners of bases Hl H2 H3represent the points where the runners belong at the several movementsof the game. Anything movable may be used to designate the men, pegsbeing very convenient for the purpose; or they may consist of miniaturemen.

D D represent the men in the ield, and, though not absolutely essentialfor playing, they serve to make the game more interesting and lively. A

. A scoring-card is represented on each side of the field, which recordsthe game for each club supposed to be playing. Names of clubs andplayers thereof arev represented on each side neXt the score-blank.

The score-blank can consist of an erasible tablet; cr a separate movableblank can beinserted for use, and takenoff for preservation.

The score-blank and names of clubs can be placed in any convenient placeon the playingboard.

The movements described in the four separate circles on the table aredesigned to indicate the movements of the batting-club at the fourdilferent bases respectively. In the present case the outside circle,No. 0, is used to indicate the movement of the man supposed to be at thebat. The next toward the center, No. 1, indicates the movement ofthe mansupposed to be at first base. The next toward the center, No. 2,indicates the move of the man supposed to be at second base. The insidecircle, No. 3, indicates the movement of the man at third base.

The manner of playing the 'game is as follows,viz: The pointer B isrevolved bya player who represents the club at the bat. When it stopsrevolving, the end b of the pointer B,

which is always used to indicate the play and direct the movement of theman at the bat, points in a radial direction to a certain indicatedmovement described in the outer circle, No. 0. This directs the movementof the first batter, and the man is stationed in the miniature iieldaccordingly. n The pointer is again revolved as the next man goes to thebat, and the batter end b of the pointer B being rst followed out to theouter circle, No. 0, as before, the movement of the batter is directedby the reading therein, and the opposite end r, pointing to the readingin the second circle from the outside, No. l,\indicates the movement andplay given the man at iirst base. The pointer is again revolved, and thebatters end b being first read, as before, indicates the movement andplay of the batter, and the opposite end of the pointer r, pointing tothe reading in circles No. 1 and N o. 2, indicates the play and directsthe movement of the men at first and second base by the reading in therespective circles. A next movement of the pointer, and, when it stops,another reading of the play to which it points in the outside circlepointed to by the batters end b of the pointer, and the readjngincircles No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3, pointed to by the opposite end r of thepointer, indicates the play and directs the movement of the batter andmen at rst, second, and third bases, respectively,

as before described. The record of the game being scored on thescoring-card, acomplete record of the separate clubs supposed to be atplay is kept.

The utility of the game and the pleasure and amusement to be derivedtherefrom are readily perceived.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isas follows:

A game apparatus consisting of the table A, marked upon its face with alist of movements of a baseball game, radially arranged, and having atits center the revolving pointer B, in combination with the miniatureeld C and movable gures D, substantially as specified. v

" EDWARD B. PEIROE.

Witnesses:

F. A. LoVEJoY, L. J. GHERRINGTON.

